Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle de Saint-Céneri
Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La chapelle : inscription par arrêté du 22 octobre 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/10/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.37579, -0.05038
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110909
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 4: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La chapelle a été élevée sur l'emplacement d'un ancien oratoire du 12e siècle. A l'intérieur se trouve, à gauche de l'autel, un bloc de pierre appelé "lit du saint", dans lequel certains archéologues ont voulu voir un menhir couché.
English translation
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History
The chapel was erected on the site of an old 12th-century oratory. In the interior, to the left of the altar, is found a block of stone called the "saint's bed", in which some archaeologists have wished to see a recumbent menhir.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Ancienne auberge de Moisyaubergeunder 1 mi
- Ancien hôtel Legangeux, devenu Auberge des Peintreshôtelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.